Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2006

• Contents, Contributors

      Asia: The Politics of Conflict

• Creating a Counterterrorism Policy: Why Has Japan Had a Weak Response?

• Linebacker Operations and U.S. Strategic Bombing at the End of the Second Indochina War

• Revisiting the Pyramid: Militant Islamism as a revolutionary movement

• Cambodia Today: The Slow Road Back from the Inferno and Killing Fields Revisited

• Democracy in Okinawa: U.S.-Okinawan Relations in the Cold war

• Beyond Yi and Yu: The Quest for Understanding Japan's 1592-1598 Invasion of Korea

      Religion and Politics

• Ramakrishna: A Model of Historical Renewal Through Incarnational Consciousness and Role Playing

• Kicking the Dog: Korea's Bureaucratic Resistance to Globalization in Reaction to Democratization

• The Green Buddha: An Analysis of the Role of Buddhist Civil Society in Environmental Conservation in Burma

• Shades of Hopi Amelioration: Food Changes in Japanese Culture – A 1949 Retrospective on SCAP's Trying to Wean the Japanese away from White to Brown Rice and Corn

      China

• Private Equity in China

• Conflicts Surrounding Rural Education Reforms in China

      Research Notes and Commentary

• My Life as a Muslim Woman

• Avian Flu: Impact and Consequences for the Chinese Market

• Teaching Asian American Studies in a Liberal Arts College: One Asianist's Reflections

• Reflections on Life in the Peace Corps in Mauritania

• Japan's Spectacular Hikone Castle

• Views of Suicide in Modern Japanese Literature: A Positive Portrayal in Nami no Tou

      Book Reviews

• J.S. Eades, Roger Goodman and Yumiko Hada, eds., The 'Big Bang' in Japanese Higher Education: The 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change.

• Louise Brown, Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia.

• Peter D. Hershock. Chan Buddhism.

• Elizabeth Freund Larus, Economic Reform in China, 1979-2003: The Marketization of Labor and State Enterprises.

• R. Keith Schoppa, Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History.

• Theodore C Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff and Victoria Lyon Bestor, eds. Doing Fieldwork in Japan.

• James T. Gillam, War in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, 1968-1970: An Historian's Experience.

• Nancy E. Sato, Inside Japanese Classrooms: The Heart of Education.

• Timon Screech, Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822.

      Book Reviews in Brief

• Evan Gottesman, Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge.

• Anne Best. The Monk, the Farmer, The Merchant, The Mother: Survival Stories of Rural Cambodia.

• Paul L. Swanson and Clark Chilson, Eds., Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions.

• Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, A History of Thailand.